Quentin Tarantino has brushed off criticism of the racially charged language used in his latest movie “Django Unchained,” insisting the script reflects the reality of the time period. The film, which …

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Quentin Tarantino has brushed off criticism of the racially charged language used in his latest movie “Django Unchained,” insisting the script reflects the reality of the time period.

The film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio, is set in slavery-era Mississippi in 1858 but the repeated use of the n-word has caused some controversy.

Stars including fellow director Spike Lee have taken aim at Tarantino for his choice of words, with the moviemaker telling Vibe.com, “I am not going to see it (the film). I am not seeing it. It would be disrespectful to my ancestors to see that film.”

He added in a post on his Twitter.com page, “American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a Holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.”

However, Tarantino argues that history is on his side when it comes to the sensitive topic of slavery.

He tells MTV News, “I think it’s kind of ridiculous (the criticism), because no one can actually say with a straight face that we use the word more than it was used in 1858 in Mississippi. So since they can’t say that, what they’re basically (saying) is I should lie. I should pretty it up. I should lie, and I don’t lie when it comes to my characters and the stories I tell.”

Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Leonardo DiCaprio attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Leonardo DiCaprio attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Samuel L. Jackson, Nichole Galicia, and Christoph Waltz attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Samuel L. Jackson, Nichole Galicia, and Christoph Waltz attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Curtis Jackson aka. 50 Cent attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Dakota Johnson attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Zach Braff attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Olivia Wilde attends The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society Host A Screening Of "Django Unchained" at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Zoe Bell attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Natasha Lyonne attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Elettra Wiedeman attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Ronnie Wood attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Ronnie Wood attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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John Legend attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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John Legend attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Phylicia Rashad attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Phylicia Rashad attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Patrick Wilson attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Josh Lucas and Jessica Lucas attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Dana Michelle Gourrier attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Dana Michelle Gourrier attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Matthew Settle and guest attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Kelley Phleger, Don Johnson and Dakota Johnson attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Kelley Phleger, Don Johnson and Dakota Johnson attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Mark Sanchez attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Peter Coyote attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Salman Rushdie attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Salman Rushdie attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen attends a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Mark Sanchez and Richard Belzer attend a screening of "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company with The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy and The Cinema Society at Ziegfeld Theater on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Cameron Diaz attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Cameron Diaz attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actor Jamie Foxx attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman attend the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman attend the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman attend the after...party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein...Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema...Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11,...2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actor Christoph Waltz attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actor Christoph Waltz attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Actor Christoph Waltz attends the after party for a screening "Django...Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood...Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room...in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo...by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Liv Tyler attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Liv Tyler attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Actress Liv Tyler attends the after party for a screening "Django...Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood...Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room...in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo...by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actor Jeremy Piven attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actor Jeremy Piven attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Actor Jeremy Piven attends the after party for a screening "Django...Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood...Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room...in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo...by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Nichole Galicia attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Actress Nichole Galicia attends the after party for a screening "Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Actress Nichole Galicia attends the after party for a screening..."Django Unchained" hosted by The Weinstein Company With The Hollywood...Reporter, Samsung Galaxy And The Cinema Society at The High Line Room...in The Standard Hotel on December 11, 2012 in New York City. (Photo...by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

The Weinstein Company threw a special screening and after party for the new film “Django Unchained” on Tuesday night. The movie’s director Quentin Tarantino and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Cameron Diaz, Liv Tyler and Uma Thurman, hit the red carpet to get a first look at the film.

Actress Diane Kruger attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring QuentinTarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Actress Diane Kruger attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring QuentinTarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Rajendra Roy, Marie-Josee Kravis and Quentin Tarantino attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Rajendra Roy, Marie-Josee Kravis and Quentin Tarantino attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Actor Steve Buscemi attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring QuentinTarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Actress Nichole Galicia attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Film producer Harvey Weinstein and fashion designer Georgina Chapman attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Actor Josh Lucas attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Harvey Keitel and Daphna Kastner attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Harvey Keitel and Daphna Kastner attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Actor Dean Winters attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) John Slattery and Talia Balsam attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Peter Bogdanovich attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Actress Diane Kruger speaks at The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Mary Alice Stephenson attends The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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(L-R) Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky attend The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino speaks at The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Honoring Quentin Tarantino at MOMA on December 3, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Katie Holmes, Diane Kruger and Jamie Foxx turned out to celebrate Quentin Tarantino’s body of work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on Monday night.

Bosses at MoMA honored Tarantino’s career achievements at the museum’s fifth annual Film Benefit, which featured his iconic movies “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Jackie Brown” and the “Kill Bill” series.

Quentin Tarantino wants to quit Hollywood after shooting his tenth movie as he fears he will end up as an “old-man filmmaker.” The “Pulp Fiction” director is getting ready to release his eighth film, …

Quentin Tarantino wants to quit Hollywood after shooting his tenth movie as he fears he will end up as an “old-man filmmaker.”

The “Pulp Fiction” director is getting ready to release his eighth film, “Django Unchained,” which stars Jamie Foxx, but he admits his self-imposed retirement is not far off.

Tarantino has just two movies to go before he considers calling it a day but is keenly aware that one directorial slip-up can ruin future projects.

He tells Playboy magazine, “I just don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker… Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f– up three good ones.”

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino once saved actor/director Eli Roth from danger after he was drugged by two women he met at a Las Vegas nightclub. Roth was partying with his pal Tarantino and Wu-Tang Clan …

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Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino once saved actor/director Eli Roth from danger after he was drugged by two women he met at a Las Vegas nightclub.

Roth was partying with his pal Tarantino and Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA some years ago when he almost fell victim to the female duo, posing as mother and daughter, who were out to rob him.

During an interview on Fox Vegas, he explains, “We went to Vegas and we went to a party and there was an afterparty at a club. It was really fun, it was really chill and then I had a drink and there was like a mother and a daughter and they were like, ‘We’re here for our bachelorette party’…

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“Next thing you know, I’m getting really dizzy and they were like, ‘We’ll walk you back to your room’ and Quentin and his date dove in and were like, ‘No, we’ll take him, we’ll take him’, and I found out that’s a routine that people do – I got roofied! They were like, ‘You got zonked!’

“This was like five years ago. I actually got roofied in a club in Vegas. And the mother and daughter, that’s what they do, they take you back to your room and they steal all your stuff and then you pass out! Literally Quentin Tarantino saved me from getting roofied in Vegas.”

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is taking legal action in a bid to silence his neighbor’s collection of “obnoxious” birds.

The “Pulp Fiction” director is suing Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, claiming he has been unable to work on new scripts due to the “blood-curdling screams” coming from the “exotic bird menagerie.”

In the lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday and obtained by TMZ.com, Tarantino also alleges that “True Blood” creator Ball has “done little to eliminate the macaws’ daily cacophony,” which he describes as “obnoxious pterodactyl-like screams.”

Tarantino is asking a judge to silence the birds after attempting to amicably resolve the dispute with Ball to no avail.

An alleged fix has rocked the Venice Film Festival after a group of Italian journalists accused jury member Quentin Tarantino of favoring ex-girlfriends, pals and associates.

The outcry came after the filmmaker’s former lover Sophia Coppola claimed the festival’s main prize, the Golden Lion, on Saturday for her drama “Somewhere.”

Tarantino has since insisted her win was unanimous, but the local media is still questioning the director’s choice, especially after his friend Alex de la Iglesia won two prizes for his film “Balada triste de trompeta” and one of his mentors, Monte Hellman, was handed a lifetime achievement prize created by the jury, led by the moviemaker.

And now the “Kill Bill” director has become the target of Italian critics, who have accused him of favoritism.

Leading film writer Paolo Mereghetti tells the Correre della Sera newspaper, “The presidency of Quentin Tarantino runs the risk of turning into the most obvious conflict of interest possible.”

Other journalists have questioned why de la Iglesia’s film was such a hit, when the movie was largely panned in Italy.

Quentin Tarantino is facing a lawsuit from a screenwriter who has accused the director of copying his idea for the “Kill Bill” movies.

Dannez Hunter alleges he sent a story to bosses at film company Miramax in 1999, about a fictional character named Ren.

The writer claims his idea was used by Tarantino in his two-part martial arts epic, which featured a character called O-Ren, played by Lucy Liu. The legal documents, obtained by TMZ.com, claim Tarantino took the “concept/character name Ren” from Hunter’s work.

Hunter also alleges he applied for a job at Miramax and was “never given a return phone call.”

He has filed suit in California demanding royalty payments from the two films, amounting to more than $1 million.

Quentin Tarantino is convinced Kathryn Bigelow will crush his dream of winning the Best Director title at next month’s Academy Awards – he’s tipped “The Hurt Locker” filmmaker to take the coveted Oscar.

The director was previously nominated for the prestigious award for his 1994 movie “Pulp Fiction,” but lost out to Robert Zemeckis for “Forrest Gump.”

Tarantino will get a second shot at the trophy at this year’s ceremony with “Inglorious Basterds,” and he is set to battle it out with Bigelow for her efforts on “The Hurt Locker.” The filmmakers will be competing against Bigelow’s ex-husband James Cameron for “Avatar,” Lee Daniels for “Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire” and Jason Reitman for “Up In The Air.”

Tarantino is hopeful he will land the prize for Best Picture or Best Original Screenplay, but he is adamant Bigelow will walk away with the director’s award.

Speaking to U.S. talk show host, Larry King, he says, “It would be really nice to win an Oscar for one of the three things or eight things I’m up for. And I think I stand a very good chance. I think we stand a good chance for best picture and I think I stand a very, very good chance for best (original) screenplay. I can’t imagine Kathryn is not going to get it for best director. I’m going to vote for Kathryn.”

But the “Kill Bill” director is not sure who he wants to win the Best Actress trophy at the glitzy event – he can’t decide between Carey Mulligan for her outing in “An Education,” or newcomer Gabourey Sidibe for her breakthrough part in “Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire.”

He tells WENN, “She’s (Mulligan’s) fantastic. To me, I haven’t decided between her or Gaby. It’s going to be tough. It’s actually one of the tougher ones (categories) and I don’t think I know what I’m going to choose.”

Director Quentin Tarantino hasn’t ruled out having kids at age 46, because he’s convinced he would be a “great dad.”

The “Inglourious Basterds” filmmaker has been romantically linked to a string of actresses including Mira Sorvino, Julie Dreyfus and his self-described “muse” Uma Thurman.

And though Tarantino hasn’t married he admits he’s longed to start a family, and now he’s just waiting for the right time.

He says, “There was a time a few years back that I kind of had baby fever. … and I kind of got over it — not that I don’t want to have kids, but I just didn’t have baby fever anymore. … I just want to take it any way it comes. … I’m really good with kids, actually. … I think I’d be a great dad. I’d like to come back and have me for a dad.”